Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back to one foot ...

Butterfly Bush are blooming machines, mine has been flowering from May till September without stopping! And those old flowers ...

Burning bush is generally a low-maintenance deciduous landscape shrub but it can grow vigorously. If you’re contemplating when to prune a burning bush shrub to maintain its shape or rejuvenate a ...

Every time I’m tempted to pick up a pair of pruners in early autumn, Cass Turnbull’s sage advice (I’ve quoted the founder of Plant Amnesty many times) reminds me that sometimes in gardening, ‘what not ...

Now that the leaves are dropping from deciduous trees and shrubs, many gardeners are thinking about doing some pruning. Some people are afraid of pruning; others are entirely too gung ho! Bad pruning ...

Don’t prune your forsythia, lilac or mock orange yet. Anything you cut off now will result in that much less of a flower show this spring. Except for these and many other spring-flowering shrubs, ...